[llvm-dev] Reducing DWARF emitter memory consumption

[Ivan Krasin via llvm-dev]

This is correct: the numbers are total allocations, and I believe there's
not a lot of deallocations there, so this is a good place to optimize.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 04:58:45PM -0800, Mehdi Amini wrote:
> >
> > > On Feb 5, 2016, at 3:17 PM, Peter Collingbourne via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > We have profiled [1] the memory usage in LLVM when LTO'ing Chromium,
> and
> > > we've found that one of the top consumers of memory is the DWARF
> emitter in
> > > lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/Dwarf*.
> >
> > I'm staring at the profile attached to the post #15 on the link you
> posted, can you confirm that the Dwarf emitter accounts for
> 6.7%+15.6%=22.3% of the the total allocated memory?
> > If I understand correctly the numbers, this does not tell anything about
> how much the Dwarf emitter accounts on the *peak memory* usage (could be
> more, could be nothing...).
>
> I think these nodes represent allocations from the DWARF emitter:
>
> DwarfDebug::DwarfDebug 9.5%
> DwarfDebug::endFunction 15.6%
> DIEValueList::addValue 9.1%
> total 34.2%
>
> I believe they are totals, but my reading of the code is that the DWARF
> emitter does not deallocate its memory until the end of code generation,
> so total ~= peak in this case.
>
> I am not surprised by these figures -- see e.g. DIEValueList::Node which in
> the worst case can use up to 24 bytes on a 1-byte DWARF attribute record.
>
> Ivan was the person who collected the numbers, he may be able to comment
> more.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Peter
>
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